Peter Montgomery is a Washington, D.C.-based writer. He is a senior fellow at People For the American Way, where he contributes to PFAW’s Right Wing Watch blog.
Groups that see a dire First Amendment threat in requiring the simple posting of a sign giving women information see no problem in a law that literally silences the speech of doctors, nurses, and other health providers.
The crowd, and the speakers, reflected a commitment to environmental and economic justice, to labor rights and immigrants’ rights, to public education. One hand-made sign summed up the spirit of the march: “I stand with so many groups here, I couldn’t pick just one.”
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